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Re: How do I color the text?

There's a button at the top of the editor for colour- highlight the text and choose the colour.

It doesn't use straight html tags, but bb ones, which have [] around them- bold- I did this manually with <b> </b> replaced with the square brackets.

Thanks tdol. I don't see the buttons/dropd-down menu for font size/color
in Firefox!! So I assumed they don't exist. I used another browser
and was able to see the menu for color and font size. Thanks.

But since I don't use the other browser (maxthon), I need to learn
how to do it in firefox.

Re: How do I color the text?

There is a toolbar above the box I am typing in right now. The fourth tool is a large capital "A" with a bold black line under it. Click on that box, select a color, and you should be able to type colored text.

Re: How do I color the text?

Tdol, thanks for the reminder about the square brackets.

mykwyner, I understand what you are saying, but I am not able to
see the large capital "A" with a bold line under it. I mean, I have
seen it using another browser, but I am unable to see it in this browser.
Strange, because tdol is using this same browser and is able to see it.

Red5, I am not using "Quick Reply". I have tried both "Quote"
and "Post Reply", but no luck. Thanks for the bbcode link.

Re: How do I color the text?

Also, you might want to check your user options in the Control Panel. Here's what it says about the message editor:

When posting messages to the forums or other members, there are three interface types available to you. The simplest of these is a simple text box, while the last is a fully-fledged WYSIWYG editor, which allows you to format your text as you want it and see the results immediately.

Re: How do I color the text?

Red5, thanks for posting that link. The editor was set as "standard",
so I changed it to "WYSIWIG" as you suggested. I was hoping that
this would change what I see, but strangely it still does not. I have
logged out, and restarted Firefox just in case, but still no luck.
I don't think it will help, but in case anyone is interested, I
can post a jpg snapshot of what I see on my screen.
I don't want to take up your time on this Red5, as I can color
the text according to tdol's suggestion and the earlier link you
posted about vbCode. And if I HAVE to then I will use an IE
based browser (Maxthon) to see the WYSIWIG editor. As I
write this, it occured to me that I was able to see the color "button"
in Maxthon even though the editor was set to "standard" the
last time I tried a few days ago.

Bobk, thanks for trying to help. I am at 1.5.07 (the latest as far
I as know). Actually FF automatically updates, which I don't like
but there does not seem to be a way to disable auto-updates.
Here is what I see in "help -> about"
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
"Enable Java" and "Enable Javascript" are selected (checked)
in case it matters.